Create a Gift-wrapped box icon in Illustrator

by Ainsley Bevis

Special thanks to Ainsley Bevis from BloomWebDesign.net for sending in this great Adobe Illustrator tutorial! She covers a number of good techniques good for beginner to intermediate Illustrator users, and some of the tricks are sheer genious!Ainsley writes . . .

Learn how to create a Christmas or Birthday inspired Gift Box in Illustrator using shapes, colour gradients and 3D options.

3. Expand Appearance, Ungroup : If the cover is slightly off move it in place. Next select the 2 box layers and go to Object > Expand Appearance, then go to Object > Ungroup (Shift+CTRL+G), you'll need to do this several times to ungroup the shape.

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